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year nowadays amount to three thousand dollars' worth, 

 to say nothing of the rent of three hundred and seventy- 

 four boxes. 



The names, moreover, which are written nowadays 

 upon letters passing through this office are many of them 

 different from those which formerly flourished here, 

 though the family names Bates, Pratt, Tower, Lincoln, 

 Nichols, and a few others still keep their heritage. The 

 Portuguese names, Grassie, Jason, Silvia, and others, with 

 various names of an Irish origin, have obtained a large 

 place. 



Photo, M. H. Beamy. 



Colonel Pope's Residence, Jerusalem Road. 



The variety of people now comprised within the limits 

 of the town is quite remarkable for so small a population. 

 In the beginning all were poor and all were filled with 

 substantially the same experiences and the same ambi- 

 tions ; but this homogeneous condition has passed away, 

 and we now have the rich with the poor, the cultured 

 with the unlearned, the cosmopolitan with the provincial, 

 in a greater variety, perhaps, than any town of the same 

 size in the Commonwealth. All these kinds of human life 



